Mark Carrington was sentenced in Starke Circuit Court on Thursday.
Carrington pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the State to charges of forgery as a Class C felony and theft as a Class D felony. Judge Kim Hall accepted the terms of that agreement and sentenced Carrington to four years in the Department of Corrections with no part of the sentence suspended on the charge of forgery. On the theft charge, Carrington was sentenced to 24 months in the Department of Corrections with no part of the sentence suspended.
Those sentences will run concurrently, or at the same time, for a total of four years.
He was permitted to serve his sentence on home detention through Starke County Community Corrections.
He was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $800. He was ordered to have no contact with the victim in this case.
